Sentences with phrase «well as phenomenon»

«Posner goes on to explore the subtleties of motivation, reception and culpability of a range of literary, student and academic plagiarists and near - plagiarists as well as the phenomenon of ghostwriting, and the difficulties of writing textbooks without borrowing ideas.

Okoshi also found inspiration in the work of Mark Toby... Is it reading too much into the relationship of this postwar period and the Japanese - ancestry if not nationality of several of these artists, to offer that Yellow Slow (by Kawabata) is a shape that could have expressed nuclear fission as well as a phenomenon of perception?

I have outlined the relation between effort and reward, as well as the phenomenon of diminishing returns in the article

The author attends a meeting of the Promise Keepers at Oakland Coliseum and reports on the event, as well as the phenomenon of this successful men's movement.

In this interview, Blandford discusses his own research, as well as phenomena in space and the research being conducted by KIPAC scientists, including their leadership role in NASA's Gamma - ray Large Area Space Telescope satellite.

Not exact matches

First, even the best social workers often lasted only three to five years before burning out, a phenomenon known as compassion fatigue.

This phenomenon is known as groupthink and it is a silent killer of good decision - making.

The results of Snapchat's news gathering can be seen in a post that Mashable did, as well as a similar piece that Business Insider did on the phenomenon.

Psychologists have known for a while about a phenomenon called «reciprocity of liking»: When we think someone likes us, we tend to like them as well.

And many nations share the same characteristics that are supposed to be holding discount rates so low in America, aging populations obligated to accumulate savings (Japan and Germany), as well as low interest rates and smooth economic expansion, practically worldwide phenomena.

The channel's made - for - TV movie Sharknado became a Twitter phenomenon last week, and that success prompted a re-airing as well as plans for a sequel.

Now, it's very likely that Birdman will get a financial boost from a well - known phenomenon known as the «Oscar bump,» where moviegoers finally decide to hit the theaters to watch films that win the prestigious critical award.

«Mobile isn't just a consumer phenomenon — enabling small businesses to be more successful in mobile can be a huge business as well.»

Cliff Asness describes momentum as «the phenomenon that securities which have performed well relative to peers (winners) on average continue to outperform, and securities that have performed relatively poorly (losers) tend to continue to underperform.»

However, this had more to do with supply than demand and was mostly a U.S. phenomenon, driven by the recent stabilization in the U.S. rig count as well the fact that production has remained resilient, despite the pullback in drilling activity.

The fake followers phenomenon applies to Facebook as well.

A provocative new report from Sentier Research gives us insight into what might be the key factor in the Trump phenomenon: A secular decline in the financial well - being of white working class males and what we can infer as the resulting anger directed at the political powers that be.

These examples are from retail, but I sense that the same customer empowerment phenomenon is happening broadly across everything we do at Amazon and most other industries as well.

Note the strong trading volume right at the low — this is a recurring characteristic of short term lows in BTC (sometimes the low of the heavy volume candle is retested at lower volume before the trend actually turns — the same phenomenon can often be observed at short term highs as well).

Fiat currency as a monetary phenomena isn't well understood.

Given the diversity of views about the definition of scalability, perhaps it is best thought of as a phenomena where «you know it when you see it.»

In their responses, the panel of Ciphrex CEO and Bitcoin Core contributor Eric Lombrozo, Blockstream CEO Adam Back, JoinMarket developer Adam Gibson, applied cryptography consultant and sometimes Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd, SatoshiLabs CTO Pavol Rusnak, and Libbitcoin lead maintainer Eric Voskuil discussed the issues with the recent phenomenon of spinoff coins, a lack of understanding as to why Bitcoin is useful, and the fact that some of them sleep better today than they did in the early days of this new technology.

The Almanac originated such important market phenomena as the «January Barometer» and the «Santa Claus Rally» and was instrumental in popularizing other tradable strategies, such as «The Best Six Months Strategy» (commonly known as «Sell in May and Go Away») and the four - year Presidential Election Cycle.

Furthermore, the Fed would like to adhere to the so - called «Taylor Rule» (in spite of Professor Taylor's protestations that it is misinterpreting and misusing his concept), a mathematical construct that purports to make monetary policy more «scientific» by establishing an arithmetic rule for varying the administered interest rate according to the variance of «actual from target inflation» (note that «inflation» refers to the change in a price index in this case, not the phenomenon of inflation of the money supply as such), as well as the variance of economic output from «potential output» (i.e, the so - called «output gap» is incorporated in the formula as well).

We view the recent slowdown in Macau as a temporary phenomenon that has given us the opportunity to own one of the best - positioned global gaming companies at a significant discount to our estimate of intrinsic value.

This points out that everything that you explained as being only aplicable to god, which is an explanation given because no other explanation is seen, saying this is amazing so god did it, is nowhere near close to looking at these phenomena, observing and collecting the data on it and saying this is our best understanding of it to date.

Oh and religions (which are natural phenomena subject to scientific examination) evolve as well.

My understanding, as well as from what I've read about my church, is that God is the guiding force behind such phenomenons we learn about when we practice and study science to understand the natural world.

The number grows by several million each year, a phenomenon some have described as a gushing well or geyser.

It simply does not follow that a singularity or the expansion requires casual agency as both could very well be the result of purely natural phenomena.

The attraction of opposites is a mental as well as physical phenomenon.

While popular in the black church, it is not a solely black phenomenon, as seen in the ministry of Osteen, a best - selling author and megapastor at Lakewood Church in Houston.

The naïve moralism in this area can be maintained only by ignoring the facts that inebriety is as much a symptom as a cause of the disturbed interpersonal life of the alcoholic, that alcoholism is a complex disease involving physical, cultural, and socio - psychological as well as moral factors, and that homelessness is in itself a complex phenomenon, not the simple product of excessive drinking.

In that case it would be necessary to extend physics to include the new phenomena as well.

How can we believe at all against the fact that historically our religion has functioned as an opiate for the oppressed and that it is, as a cultural phenomenon, neither appreciably better nor essentially worse than any other religion?

Of course Père Teilhard had a full - length treatment in The Phenomenon of Man and an off - tangent discussion in The Future of Man as well as in The Divine Milieu, where his main interest however was in making sense of man's religious experience and showing its abiding significance in a world which is in process.

The world - wide phenomenon of climate change, and the devastatingly dangerous weather patterns and storms it produces, must be our fault as well.

As with other fields of sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.&raquAs with other fields of sociological research the question has been asked if there is good enough reason to treat socioreligious phenomena separately instead of handling them in the traditional disciplines (theology, philosophy, anthropology, etcetera).30 Yet, as against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.&raquas against such doubts, the work done by modern scholarship has proved the right to an independent existence of «sociology of religion.»

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Lakatos defines a research programme as «progressive» if in the long run it leads to the discovery of novel phenomena and previously unexpected facts as well as accounting for facts already known.

Feuerbach was too good an interpreter of religion to overlook the phenomenon of self - abnegation, which he read as a subtle form of self - love.

Students may still be encouraged to come to their judgments as to what is the best way to study the phenomenon of religion, the solution of certain historical puzzles, the relation of religion to other aspects of culture, and so forth.

The reason for this is that such a position can itself be held in good faith, as far as it goes: one can, without logical inconsistency, maintain that the laws of nature (if completely understood) do (or could) explain the phenomena studied in the sciences.

The insight that revolutionized the analysis of dreams — that the characters in the dream represent psychic phenomena within the dreamer — has a certain applicability to the analysis of other texts as well.

Conversely, by generalizing the social situation one could generalize a desirable historic phenomenon as well.

Hints and indications of the truth of this option can perhaps be seen in the doctrine of the Ascension and Assumption as well as in the phenomenon that the bodies of saints often remain incorrupt.

As is well known, the method of Newton's Philosopiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, after which Russell and Whitehead's work was modeled, was to infer particular propositions from phenomena and then render these general by induction.

It is sufficient here merely to say that in the area of human conduct, as well as in the more obvious areas of natural phenomena, there is form or structure.

(4) In the absence of an explanation why God does not use more coercive power and is not more effective in his persuasion we may as reasonably conclude that there is a great evil persuasive power behind phenomena in the world as that there is a great power persuading toward the good.